(MENAFN- QNA) Death toll from a heat wave in Pakistan rose to more than two dozen people, officials said on Monday.
At least 13 people died in the southern province of Sindh as temperatures reached 46 degrees Celsius.
Twelve more deaths were attributed to the heat on Monday as the temperature climbed another degree to 47.
Temperatures in Pakistan's southern deserts sometimes touch 50 degrees Celsius.
In neighbouring India, nearly 2,500 people died in April and May from a heat wave in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Telagana.
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